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Blaze
Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
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Women in Art and Literature Networks
Spinning Webs
This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.
This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.
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Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Western Tradition
No More Miss Perfect
Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.
Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.
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Three German Women
Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
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Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema
Queer Visuals
This volume explores India's queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.
This volume explores India’s queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.
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This book situates the reader between a passionate retelling of Cole’s life and a deep investigation into his work. It recounts the interconnected story of art and life, detailing how his paintings incorporate prophetic stories of human history witnessed by pristine landscapes.
This book situates the reader between a passionate retelling of Cole’s life and a deep investigation into his work. It recounts the interconnected story of art and life, detailing how his paintings incorporate prophetic stories of human history witnessed by pristine landscapes.
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This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
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Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond
An Astral Map of Warburgian Constellations
This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork's “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.
This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork’s “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.
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Pop Culture Matters
Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
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The Shaping of Persian Art
Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
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This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.
This study highlights the impressive work of television writers, their inspiration, and their talent for mirroring society. It offers original interpretations of TV shows and explores how series have evolved, noting what has been maintained and changed over time.
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This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.
This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.
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The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
The satires of Lucian of Samosata targeted everyone from cult-leaders to the rich and powerful. This volume focuses on what his works show us about the intellectual, political, religious, and everyday life of the vibrant Imperial period.
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Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Art and Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
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Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
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This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
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This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
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Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
Referencing neurological research, this book examines how experimental cinema performs traumatic experience. It argues that ‘materialist film’ perceptually performs disorientation and flashbacks, giving this practice a renewed relevance in the digital age.
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The Willow and the Spiral
Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination
This book of essays commemorates Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Top scholars offer studies of his poetry and essays in relation to art, politics, translation, and world cultures, celebrating his legacy of criticism and open viewpoints.
This book of essays commemorates Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Top scholars offer studies of his poetry and essays in relation to art, politics, translation, and world cultures, celebrating his legacy of criticism and open viewpoints.
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This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
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